Physician assisted suicide is when a person can choose to die on their own free will. The doctor helps the person administer life-ending medication. This is legally used in California, Oregon, Washington, Vermont, Colorado, and Montana. Not only is it widely used throughout the world there are still laws on it like the Death with Dignity Act. While physician assisted suicide and euthanasia is a topic greatly debated around the world, it should be legal in all states because it is a human right to die on their own terms.
The right to die is one’s own choice to make for themselves. “In 2014, 155 terminally ill patients in Oregon made a request and 105 of those patients used it. In 2015, there were 218 requests and 132 uses” (Physician, Jones). Based on these statistics it is shown that people are for physician assisted suicide and euthanasia because they have already requested and used it. In another instance, “68% of Americans think that physician-assisted death should be legalized” (Physician, Jones). Over
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Even if they don’t choose assisted-suicide, they “still have to die” (The). A person may get old enough and be in a nursing home, ready to end it, but the right to die gives them more control that they may not have in their old age. It gives them the control to when they actually go. In states like Oregon, they have a “Death with Dignity Act” (Assisted). Such things like this gives exactly what it says, ‘death with dignity’. This means that an elderly person will not have to die without being to care for themselves. They can die aware of what they are doing and on their own terms to the point where they don’t have to wait for death to come. They can choose their date and say goodbye to their loved ones while making arrangements for the time. Assisted death give an elderly person a new sense of control over their life that they lost eventually through becoming